Chapter 505 501. Potato Princess
"what happened?"

Wenying asked and walked towards the female student.

Luo Yihang and three professors from Shanxi Agricultural University also went there.

This student is from Shanxi Agricultural University.

"What's wrong?" Professor Chang asked again as he walked to the side.

The crying female student was immersed in sorrow and didn't hear anything at all.

The classmate who was comforting her answered, "Qin Qiuyan cultivated a new variety of potato for several years, but all the potatoes were cracked and tasted terrible. Today, I tasted the sweet potatoes cultivated by Teacher Wen and they were so delicious. I felt bad when I thought about the several years I wasted."

Upon hearing this, Professor Chang remembered that there was such a person in the school, whose nickname was Potato Princess.

I'm just stubborn and keep working with potatoes. From undergraduate to graduate school, I'm still working with potatoes.

"Student Qin is from the Seed Science and Engineering major at the College of Agriculture. Is he Professor Feng's student?"

The student who answered nodded.

When Wenying heard that Qin Qiuyan was also a breeder, she discovered that she was one of the most attentive students during the morning lecture.

I immediately felt close to you, squatted down and asked softly, "Student, don't be sad. Breeding requires constant trial and error, and only by constant repetition can success be achieved. It doesn't matter if you fail once. We can accumulate experience and maybe we will succeed next time."

Qin Qiuyan turned her head, tears on her face, and said in a sobbing voice: "I failed five times. Once a year, I failed every year..."

“Uh…” Wenying was stunned for a moment, but couldn’t help but smile.

For a student to fail once a year and still be able to persist for five years, this quality is much more important than knowledge.

Wenying lowered her voice, "So after these five failures, do you think you have made any progress?"

Qin Qiuyan nodded, "A little bit."

"Then it's not a failure." Wenying said immediately.

At this time, the student sitting opposite Qin Qiuyan stood up and gave his seat to Wenying.

Wenying smiled at her, sat over and continued to ask: "So what is the direction of your breeding?"

"I just want to cultivate potatoes with high yields," Qin Qiuyan replied.

"So how did you do it?"

"My mentor left me a small area in his greenhouse, where I selected seeds, hybridized them, screened them, and kept statistical records. If I felt that there was hope, I would take them to the field for trial planting."

Wenying said she understood, "Breeding 2.0, a very classic method. And then, what is the result."

Qin Qiuyan shook her head with a sad face, "We can only grow potatoes once a year. I select seeds in the greenhouse in winter, and then plant them in the large test field in spring. Some yields can increase a little, while some have even decreased. This year I feel the best hope. I planted in April and harvested in September. I harvested more than 7,000 kilograms per mu. The original seed yield was more than 5,000 kilograms per mu, but all of them were cracked and tasted terrible. I can't eat them at all."

Qin Qiuyan talked on and on, even with tears in her voice, as she told about her experience.

Wenying was envious and said self-deprecatingly: "You can cultivate high-yield crops, which is amazing. I can't do that. All I can do is reduce the yield or even make the crop completely gone."

"But everything you cultivate is very useful. I've heard of peas before. You've turned a seasonal vegetable into a year-round vegetable. Today I saw the sweet potatoes you cultivated. They're delicious."

Qin Qiuyan became sadder and sadder as she spoke, and tears began to fall from her eyes again.

She wiped her tears and gestured with her hands.

"One of mine was this big. When it was cooked, it tasted like a pile of soft sawdust. It had no sweetness, no fragrance, not even potato flavor. It was still cracked."

Luo Yihang looked at the size she was trying to illustrate. Wow, it looked almost as big as a football.

Wenying frowned and pondered for a while, then murmured, "You seem to have come up with something that is the opposite of what I did."

"Ah?" Qin Qiuyan was stunned for a moment and stopped crying.

"Let's talk about cracking first. Do you think it's like the sugar converts to starch very quickly, and the epidermis can't keep up with the starch accumulation, so it swells. And you said the taste is slippery, which is also like the taste of starch. Which parents did you use?"

"It's from the Northern series."

"Or else come back to the laboratory with me and see if there is a genome in the database, run a system simulation, and see where the problem lies?" Qin Qiuyan nodded repeatedly when he heard this.

The two said hello to the professor and classmates and went back to the laboratory.

Luo Yihang had sharp ears and overheard Wen Ying saying to Qin Qiuyan, "It's too slow to conduct an experiment once a year. Do you want to try high-throughput cultivation acceleration technology? For potatoes, it can be repeated four or five times a year..."

Luo Yihang was deeply pleased, because he had just heard that this classmate named Qin Qiuyan was good at high yield. With such simple equipment, he was able to increase the potato yield from 5,000 kilograms per mu to 7,000 kilograms per mu in just five years.

Breeding 2.0 technology, and this bit of luck is incredible.

It seems like she can complement Wenying perfectly.

Oh, it’s like there’s a pillow whenever I feel sleepy, whatever I want will come true.
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Wenying took her people away.

What about the remaining students?
Actually, all the programs of this visit and study tour have ended, but there is still some time.

Then just visit freely.

Luo Yihang told several professors where the confidential area was and told them not to enter. In fact, it was the area of ​​the radar station at the entrance and Changqing Biology.

Others are free to visit.

Let me reiterate, do not lose the identification card.

Then several professors took their students and divided into several groups.

Professor Chang naturally went to the Mushroom House, as Ma Zhitao was still waiting for help.

Ling Tongjie took people to the earthworm farm. He was more familiar with the place than Luo Yihang.

Others also have their own interests.

Most people went to the laboratory. They were also curious about how Wen Ying simulated Qin Qiuyan's big potato that could crack.

Luo Yihang was also very curious, so he followed them.

When I arrived at the laboratory, I saw Wenying saying, "Enter the parents first... Ah, yes, the genome is here, the explicit and recessive genes are matched... This will produce a variety of results, and then we can screen them. It is very efficient."

As she spoke, the parental genetic data used by Qin Qiuyan was retrieved and connected to a supercomputer for computational simulation.

The screen is filled with dense lines and columns of data.

Wow, I don't understand it at all~~——
At seven o'clock in the evening, we entertained the students and professors with a dinner and gave each of them a gift.

This study tour has finally come to an end.

The entire Ping'angou breathed a sigh of relief.

What a bunch of energetic pests! The big mice kept at the door of the greenhouse were almost bald from being scratched. Fortunately, the two cats were smart and ran away early, otherwise they would have been killed as well.

As for the rest, it has nothing to do with Luo Yihang.

Wenying and Shijuan will go to the hotel in the evening.

Talk to the students they like after their inspection. It’s a two-way choice.

But Luo Yihang believed it.

After two days of reception, the company atmosphere, experimental equipment, living conditions and future development were all shown off.

I don’t believe that those students won’t be tempted.

Ma Zhitao also went with them.

He didn't need to recruit students. He was targeting Professor Chang. He planned to rely on his student status, cry for help, and shamelessly detain Professor Chang for a few months.

Luo Yihang himself needs to think about how to sell the sweet potatoes.

By the way, what is the name of this sweet potato? Wenying hasn't decided on a name yet...

(End of this chapter)